Urgent Question - DH on the Floor with Toothache

[Anonymous]

Good luck to your DH, OP! The hospital was the right call. I wonder if the tooth is abcessed?

Why do these things always happen in the middle of the night...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is scheduled for a root canal next week. He is on a heap in the floor crying due to tooth pain, trembling and alleging that this must be worse than childbirth. He already has taken two vicodin and 1000 mg of Tylenol. Does anyone know if the ER can do anything for him, or is he stuck waiting for an emergency dentist to open in the morning?

Ouch! The ER can give IV dilaudid. I don't know whether they would do this or not, but I have never heard of tooth pain that bad. Perhaps the infection has severely affected a nerve. I think he has reached his limit on Tylenol and would not take more.

Thank you - I'll pack up the kids and take him in. I wasn't sure if they could do anything without a dental expert and Dr. Google was not proving very useful.

Many major hospitals have dental or maxillofacial staff on call. Take him.

[Anonymous]

NP and I had no idea that Vicodin contains acetaminophen.

Keep us posted on your DH, OP. Glad he's getting it taken care of.

[Anonymous]

OP, you did the right thing, and I'm sorry people are being jerks. Hope your husband feels better soon, poor guy (and poor you!)

[Anonymous]

I have had severe tooth pain (abscess that needed root canal) and it WAS worse than childbirth! Considerably worse!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oil of cloves.

This would be like putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg. Pain from an abscessed tooth is right up there with childbirth and kidney stones. Hope your husband gets some relief, OP!

[Anonymous]

OP here - I got him home and he got some more rest. He is feeling a little better but still in pain. Today, they drained the infection, which they said wasn't extreme, and did a partial root canal. They said they may have to pull the tooth, so they stopped before doing a complete root canal (which confuses me), pumped the area and tooth full of pain meds, and told him to come back in two weeks. I am really hoping he feels ok when the meds wear off, since they only gave him 5 days worth of pain pills and antibiotics for the two weeks, !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you did the right thing, and I'm sorry people are being jerks. Hope your husband feels better soon, poor guy (and poor you!)

We're not being jerks. It's terrifying to see people OD'ing on Tylenol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you did the right thing, and I'm sorry people are being jerks. Hope your husband feels better soon, poor guy (and poor you!)

We're not being jerks. It's terrifying to see people OD'ing on Tylenol.

Yes, but harping on OP/her husband's foolishness is and was 0% helpful. Once someone told her that Vicodin and acetaminophen shouldn't be taken together, all further discussion was unnecessary and jerk-ish.

Best wishes for his speedy recovery, OP. And I hope you have someone else around to help out with the 3 under 5!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you did the right thing, and I'm sorry people are being jerks. Hope your husband feels better soon, poor guy (and poor you!)

We're not being jerks. It's terrifying to see people OD'ing on Tylenol.

true, I have known for a long time as a friend tried to kill herself by ingesting 30 Tylenol in college. It does surprise me how a lot of people are completely unaware.

BUT there was a bit of a pile-on OP about this, most of the thread was about OD'ing on Tylenol instead of her original post. After a few of her took her to task and the follow-ups, did we really need another page or two of latecomers saying the exact thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you did the right thing, and I'm sorry people are being jerks. Hope your husband feels better soon, poor guy (and poor you!)

We're not being jerks. It's terrifying to see people OD'ing on Tylenol.

Yes, well, "Why didn't you read the labels?" or "Why didn't you know not to do that?" are kind of pointless comments after the medicine has already been taken and carry a subtext of "you fool." Particularly when OP's DH made the decision while probably in the worst pain of his life and not really in the mood to be reading ingredients and adding up milligrams (and before you say OP should have been monitoring, she's his wife, not his mother, and he's an adult). The situation already happened and now they know. Piling on remarks professing astonishment at their previous ignorance is pretty useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you did the right thing, and I'm sorry people are being jerks. Hope your husband feels better soon, poor guy (and poor you!)

We're not being jerks. It's terrifying to see people OD'ing on Tylenol.

Yes, well, "Why didn't you read the labels?" or "Why didn't you know not to do that?" are kind of pointless comments after the medicine has already been taken and carry a subtext of "you fool." Particularly when OP's DH made the decision while probably in the worst pain of his life and not really in the mood to be reading ingredients and adding up milligrams (and before you say OP should have been monitoring, she's his wife, not his mother, and he's an adult). The situation already happened and now they know. Piling on remarks professing astonishment at their previous ignorance is pretty useless.

And, unless I'm missing something, he was not even in the danger zone for an OD at all, making all of the posts a little jerkish.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/acetaminophen-safety-be-cautious-but-not-afraid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you did the right thing, and I'm sorry people are being jerks. Hope your husband feels better soon, poor guy (and poor you!)

We're not being jerks. It's terrifying to see people OD'ing on Tylenol.

Yes, well, "Why didn't you read the labels?" or "Why didn't you know not to do that?" are kind of pointless comments after the medicine has already been taken and carry a subtext of "you fool." Particularly when OP's DH made the decision while probably in the worst pain of his life and not really in the mood to be reading ingredients and adding up milligrams (and before you say OP should have been monitoring, she's his wife, not his mother, and he's an adult). The situation already happened and now they know. Piling on remarks professing astonishment at their previous ignorance is pretty useless.

And, unless I'm missing something, he was not even in the danger zone for an OD at all, making all of the posts a little jerkish.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/acetaminophen-safety-be-cautious-but-not-afraid

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeez, people. OP didn't know about the Vicodin. Now she does. Stop beating a dead horse.

OP, I say this as someone who has BTDT- please encourage your husband to see the dentist every 6 months preventatively. These things can usually be caught early.

I posted once about it. The info isn't just for OP, but for the other people reading the thread too. It's not always intuitive that Vicodin has acetaminophen.

Then it wasn't directed at you. Some people keep posting scary stories and berating OP like a child after she said she didn't know before, now she did, and thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - I got him home and he got some more rest. He is feeling a little better but still in pain. Today, they drained the infection, which they said wasn't extreme, and did a partial root canal. They said they may have to pull the tooth, so they stopped before doing a complete root canal (which confuses me), pumped the area and tooth full of pain meds, and told him to come back in two weeks. I am really hoping he feels ok when the meds wear off, since they only gave him 5 days worth of pain pills and antibiotics for the two weeks, !

Thanks for the update!